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30+

There are more than 30 applications for point-of-care ultrasound

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30%

With the addition of ultrasound in an emergency department in Rwanda, medications were adjusted 30% of the time.

After a Global Sounds instructional course, emergency physicians at Patan Hospital in Nepal were able to diagnose 91% of pneumonias with ultrasound. Chest X-ray was only able to diagnose 73%.

U/S

CXR

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42.4%

In the same hospital in Rwanda 42.4% of the time ultrasound was utilized resulted in a change in the patients' dispositions. This helps maximize a hospital's limited resources to impact the most lives.

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64

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>1/week

At Georgetwon Public Hospital in 2015, there were 64 ectopic pregnancies that required surgery.